the tick of the clock, the buzz of the tube, a girl lost in a labyrinth

of old newspapers.

Yet there are dreamers, wideawake behind these windows.

Cars are sleepwalking on the Highway, switching from

lane to lane without deliberation.There are wedding arrangements and life

sentences and everything in between;a paradox of winter, the drone of stillness

and flutter of wings. Everything is covered.

Find the distance between surviving and living. Here. Here. Here.

SHEREEN LEE

SILENCE AS AN ART

today, the most curious phenomenon:

the conductor coaxing a melody out of white noise and thought.

an aggressive silence straining the air.

somewhere in the room,

a pocket watch ticks and the whole room hears it:

rhythm augmented by coughing

and the whir of machinery.

no longer invisible under a mask of sound.

someday, we will hear the music which exists in the waiting.

Lisa Zou is a student in Arizona. Her writing has been recognized by The Poetry Society of UK and the National YoungArts Foundation. Her work has been published by the Sierra Nevada Review.

Shereen Lee is a freshman in high school currently residing in Taiwan. An editor at Expression Magazine, she has been recognized for her poetry and art by Laura Thomas Communications and the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.